Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to Bill Blair, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, as well as Nova Scotia Attorney General Mark Furey.
Dear Ministers Blair and Furey,
As we move past the grief, loses and changes caused by COVID-19, let us attempt to deal with whatever positive outcomes that have been produced by this pandemic.
There will be many changes that...
Dear Covid-19,
Yes, you have caused chaos. You have caused fear and anxiety. You have caused sickness and death.
But do you know what else you have caused? You have caused...
Editor’s note: The following letter was written to Mulgrave Mayor Ralph Hadley and the rest of Mulgrave Town Council.
It seems like you understand the situation here in rural Nova Scotia. Nova Scotians for...
Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, as well as Strait area MLAs Allan MacMaster, Alana Paon, Lloyd Hines, and Randy Delorey.
My family and community are grateful...
The fact that the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) council is considering applying for a loan to help us get by during the COVID-19 pandemic, is very serious.
The Province of Nova Scotia has...
COVID-19 has infected nearly 60,000 Canadians as of May
3 but has a disproportionally deadly effect on our elders. While there are many
excellent, well designed and operated Long Term Care (LTC) facilities across
Canada and in Nova Scotia, there...
The current pandemic has caused significant disruptions
in the supply chain of food across the world.
The situation is affecting countries to varying degrees
depending on the level of outbreak and the conditions of the restrictions.
Nevertheless,...
One of life’s truisms is that no two days are the same;
we may hope for that to be a certainty but it will never be so.
Simply being alive gives us challenges of varying
degrees;...
The members of the Strait Richmond Palliative Care
Society wish to acknowledge and thank the frontline health care workers in our
region during this trying time of the COVID–19 pandemic.
These include doctors, nurses, paramedics and...